MCAS Writing Prompts

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Check out the file entitled MCAS Writing Prompts.Doc for a
complete list of the writing prompts used on the MCAS tests during the
past several years. It would be beneficial to practice with your
students using any of the writing prompts to prepare them for the long
composition part of the MCAS test. The long composition is extremely
important to success on the test. Essays must be long (at least 5
paragraphs) and answer the prompt (and not simply re-telling the
story.) This year's writing prompts will be different, but all of the
prompts focus on a piece of literature that students have read in and
out of school. Students can usually, using a bit of imagination,
answer any prompt with almost any book that they have read.